The Sun. — London, England, 1838-03-31 00:00:00

~ ; 1 • 1 paid the m oney for his obtaining this privilege. And let it be 7 : er remembered, t h at while you had the money in your exchequer 1.1 could have obt a i ned any stipulations which were necessary to en. cure to the negro those advantages which you now make a tardy effort 1 co nfer upon hi m ; b ut with preposterous haste you distributed the mo tley without protesting the negro, or answering the claims of rushee and hu man i ty.—(Cheers) It is next provided that no person I!! Ibe co mm i tted as a vagrant except by a stipendiary magistrate. This Clause bespeaks a foregone conclusion—that any man 50.11nd beyond the estate t o which he belonged had beee .hitherto denominated a vagrant. And this i s pl ace d b e y on d doubt 10 7 the next provision, which requires that the negro should use a pass in going from ono part of the country to the ether. So that here is a free lo an —for the apprenticed negro is entitled to that appellation when he ilts discharg e d hi s 45 h ours ' work in the week—debarred from the right t going from one place to another! The evidence is full of instances Whir . MO, desirous of visiting their wives and families, have been pro hibited by the owners from passing the boundaries of their estates. What is this but to make every plantation a prison, and to prevent a free tian from going beyond the limit of his task-master'e property.—(Hear 4 id cheers.) I am not resorting to any doubtful evidence, but to the con fessions emphatically made by the provisions of your own act of amend. s /4 ,ent. The next clause. prohibits the flogging of females. Why 1 iltellght we had taken steps to prevent that in the Imperial Act. It is true in the first draft of the act all provision for this grievance was CltSitted, and f cairn this honour of having placed on the order book a netice to supply this defect. It is true that this point was very l'reperly taken out of my hands by the Noble Lord (Lord Stanley) tsut 1 ant not on that account the less anxious that this 11 XeMption should be full and complete.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Ras the provision inserted in the Imperial Act been carried into effect ? I remember well how powerfully the Noble Lord (Stanley), in his elo. Went speech on introducing the Emancipation Act, pointed out the un. Manly cruelty, the total want of generous and manly feeling, exhibited by the metnbers of the Colonial Legislatures, who could not be prevailed Ort to give up the whip, " even in the case of the female," not to speak of ng so far as to abolish flogging altogether. The Noble Lord thought he had eecured that object. He applied his powerful and ingenious Mind to the s'ehject, with a view to give effect to his wishes : the clause was maturely frame and carried by the Legislature. Did it succeed ? It is admitted it did not. A 'eel was it not one of the conditions , t he most dearly-che r i s h e d conditions, of t h e hoots of six years' apprenticeship granted to the planters ? It must be admitted --heaven help eke man who can doubt it I—that the people of Eriglan d acceded to the payment of the :20,000,0004 principally because they eepected that this condi . tiofs should be faithfully observed.—(Cheers.) The Women of Eng land, who have sent up uncounted millions of petitions ill Avow' of the emancipation of the Negroes, lent their countenance to the Imperial Act, because they were convinced that it would have the effect of rescuing the unfortunate beings of their Sex from the degradation, cruelty, and torture of the lash.—(Cheers.) 'Pita Noble Lord (Lord Stanley) did everything he could to make this clause as stringent as pos tale. The Legislature did everything it could to assist him. lint both total?) , failed ; and this diabolical and atrocious violation of the express enactment of the Legislature some Mess have now the haelihood to de signate as part of a contract which ought not in the slightest degree to be touched. Sir, the people of England latteh to scorn soar a notion, You have heard within this House the noise occasioned by the congre. gated dissenters who besiege your doors. And who are they theft have raised this cry of immediate emancipation ? Are they the idle and the violent agitators who look to the convulsions of the State, and disregard social order; men who look to the chances of revolution as holding out the hope of their being possibly useful to their interests ? No'; they are the steadiest, soberest, most industrious, and most respectable Men, differing with me as to religious forms, but holding out in their conduct the happy spectacle of religious zeal mixed with religious cha rity. They are men who do not care for distance of country or dif ference of clime, but risk their health as scattered missionaries of huma. nity, and have travelled at their own expense to the remotest corners of th e globe in order to indulge the noble gratification of doing the work of their God by benefiting his creatures.—(Cheers.) These are the men that you think to put off by a passage of Lord Clenelg'c speech or a Solitary instance of a colony in which the apprenticeship system has worked well. Recollect that four years hare gone by, and that suffer. ings have been endured for that period, and yet two years more are now to be thrown in to answer the purpose of your present "hit or miss" kind of legislation. If you think they will bear this, you mistake the men. They have too much good sense and good feeling not to deter_ Mine, should you reject this motion, to redouble their efforts, and to send up to your table 500,000 petitions, besides crowds of deputies who will peaceably and quietly stand before your door, but who will insist on having his freedom granted to the negro.—(Cheers.) They are enlisted in a cause too good and too sacred—dear as it is to humanity, and con secrated to religion—to admit of their respiting their exertions for a tingle moment until they succeed, as they ought to do, and until the last fetter is struck off from the limbs of the negro. But this Bill con tains one or two other provisions for compelling compliance with the conditions of the Emancipation Act. At this moment the distinc. Lion between predial and non predial has been ascertained. The Hon. Baronet (Sir G. Grey) stated last night that if you passed a law in ac. cordance with the resolution, it would not reach the West Indies until a day or two before the Ist of August. Now, I shall ask in turn, what is to be the effect of his legislation, delayed until the Ist of August, for distinguishing predials from non-predials ? How many a man, then entitled to his freedom, will be condemned to the illegal sufferings of slavery ! The Jamaica Legislature have pertinaciously refused for four years to pass an Act on this subject, which you ought to have compelled them to have done in the first instance. It took myself a fortnight to understand the distinctions between predial and non-predial, attached predial and non-attached predial. Now, it ever there was a case which required that you should depute some High Commissioner for its settle ment, it is that to which I have referred. But is it not insufferable that you should allow three—four years to pass without legislating at all on this question, and that you should pass a law which enables a man to augment his property at the expense of another, by raising the value of iron-predial over predial slaves ? This is a matter on which the public sentiment cannot be checked. Dust may be thrown in the eyes of good men : delusions may be practised on honest men ; but let me ask whether the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench would have volun teered an Opinion, if his conscience did not :all upon him to promulgate it lam entitled to ask who appointed the Noble and Learned Lord; who declared him to be the fittest man to preside over the first bench in the British dominions, which decides on questions relating to the h onour, the lives, and the property of her Majesty's subjects? The Present Government.—(Hear, hear.) They at least arc precluded from `aging that he is not a man competent to the situation; and when he has stepped out of his usual course at the call of justice and humanity, his °Pi "° , May be called extra-judicial ; but he lies proclaimed, with all the s olemnity and sanctity of his name, that there is saci contract to Prevent us from doing justice.--(Cheers) I have, of course, wearied the House —(Much cheering)—but I think I have established these pro- Positions, that the West India planters have been greatly benefited by t h e emancipation; that complaints of distress and difficulty are no °offer heard; that the imports are increasing, and the exports diminish. fig ; and that the negro population have completely vindicated their c haracter, and read an emphatic lesson to another country, calling itself free, and boasting of its democratic institutions, to prove, when they speak of dangers to be apprehended from the brutalised negro, that he went through an apprenticeship of full four years, that his conduct was scrupulously watched, regularly attended to, and cautiously re. Ported, and that he came out of the frial with the full praise of possess ing all the kindly and warns feelings which belong to the social charac ter, and of demonstrating his desire to ameliorate his Condition, and to benefit the objects of his choice and love.—(Cheers.) What is the next proposition ? I have proved that there was no compact, and that there were no parties to it ; for that the legislatures of the colonies, though not disregarded by the Noble Lord (Lord Stanley), were treated With that hig's hand which he had a right to use. I have next shown that this case is one on which the House is called upon to legislate, and on which it is not necessary that it should depart from any of its ordi, i n , tY functions and powers. The Honourable Gentleman (Sir G. Grey) has said that the law of the country admitted a state of slavery. I utterly deny that declaration in the sense in which Was made' and I put it to thi s t es t , th at if a negro were the law coosouulr not ot h ave handed before him as a Judge in 1833, an d hi s purc h ase proved, he hint over as property to th e owner , I a d m it th at suffered the practice in the colonies. Why ? Because the arm of the law of England was not long enough to reach them ; and because the writ of habeas corpus did not run into those colonies, But the Moment the slave appeared at the bar of the King's Bench the title of tne master was gone.—(Cheers.) But looking to the high power of the Legislature to decree the extinction of slavery, seeing that ernancipas ton was greeted in a manner most advantageous to the planter, who got a large sum of money, which, though I opposed, I should not now re gret if I obtained value in return, and maintaining that the appren ticeship was given on conditions, I now stand on my last proposition, that these conditions were not performed, aed that you may as well at tempt to call back the waters of the Thames on which the late snows drifted, as to resist the demands which are made to strike off the last fetters of the slave, and to make him what the people of England in. tended him to be. [The Hon. and Learned Gentleman sat down amid loud and confirmed cheers.] Mr. PLUMPTRE had not heard sufficient reasons assigned to induce him to vote for the resolution of the Hon. Baronet (Sir G. Strickland). He did not feel satisfied that the proposition would prove beneficial to The negroes, whilst it would be an act of injustice to the planters.- -- -!Hear.) The motion of the Hon. Baronet might be carried, but it wou,:i be with the loss of life, with the ruin of families, and through the distress of countless thousands. Lord 1-:0 W ICK said that the deep interest he had for many years felt in the su Nect of slavery, and the part he had taken in the several d iscussions that had from time to time ensued upon it, made hiin most anxious to state to the Mouse the grounds on which lie intended to op- Pose the motion of the Hon. Baronet. If his (Lord Howick's) vote de pended on the question as to wieeher or not he had altered the opinions formerly entertained, and on all ocesisions expressed by him, previous and subsequent to leen, he should save no hesitation in giving the motion his support. The experience of five years which had elapsed since than only impressed on his mind themore deeply the conviction of the necessity which then existed for a complete and unconditional emaucieation of the ne. &roes. But unhappily a political error could not be redeemed by a re tracing of the steps which led to it; and the case under consideratien Was one which only tended to aggravate the original evil. It would be necessary for him to take a review of the circumstances which led t 5 his present decision, at well as to the probable results which would accrue if the motion of the Honourable Baronet were agreed to . In the first place, he should beg to remind the House that the apprenticeship interval was not proposed by any one having an interest in slave property, but by the Government themselves, The principle of that plan had received the sanction of the House, C od, more p a rti cu l ar l y o f hi s H onoura bl e an d L earne d F r i en d b e . n id him and others, who like him were the active and zealous frie nds of the negro. I t was t rue th a t some o f th e con diti ons had been protested against, and many wished that the powers W ere more restricted, but the principle of apprenticeship was 'lever opposed. In consequence of this, no division took place on th ose resolutions in which it was embodied. He (Lord Howick) was ' w ell aware of th e hi g h and honoura bl e mo ti ves w hich influenced hi s °n. and L earned Friend, and many of t h ose w h o acqu i e sced with him, in the ir approval of thi s p r i nc ipl e; but he thought at the same time that tr - •'eY had fallen into a very natural error on the subject. How xher e easy it might be now for Hon. Members to assert that apprentice. w n a great e v il, an d th a t t o t a l emanc ip a tion was absolutely ncces. -- 4 ,`Y at that period, some years since such was not the genera l o pinion .°` the Ho use or of the country. At the time alluded to and prev i ous ly t was the expressed opinion of the most powerful and consistent advo cate' of uegro freedom that then or ever lived-51r. Burke, Mr. Can hang, Mr. B uxton, and many others—that the slaves should riot be Jibe. rt ed , , once or on a su dd en • an d the second-named of these statesmen n 4 ,1 . • that "we must take off their fetters link by link." Now he (Lord iPowick) did not in the onset pretend to be free from that too easily adrn!tted error; and, for a long time after his emerging into r iblic life, he was accustomed to receive it as an incontestable truth ou t w " Only during the period that be had the honour to hold the th 'e tinder -Seers tar p for the Colonies—a space of two years— invatorhtuenlittad occasion to change his opinion on the subject. The ea), the Y Which he then had of witnessing the diffieerlties, is utter impossibility, of carrying into effect the theory t slavery should be mitigated by degrees, that opened his :Yrle'otti(:,:he error he had been labouring under in comma., wLitt almost °ui Persons at that p e riod. He was at length convinced, beer,. his ruin observation, that the vice of slavery lay in slavery itself, and that modification of a sys t em „web gave one malt a compulsory • snit to the labour of another was eolniettible with good will ; an t ' s he hetet", le multiplication, of e fully satisfied that whilst that right 4,4140 ti vuatic,n):•e:Tkh'aatnwd regulations years' observatSo t s, during the result in his trsiri4 of tw o regularly e a leriod his Noble Friend at the boo of the Colonial Department kie wiek) e endeavoured to work out his systeari, In 1830 he (Lord by cable to the conch/49n that a wrong course wee being pursued PoPulatio " Friend and the GOverisenent. He thought that thelaheoring rtl iesh ou n id or b t e he ' v eEt Indies should be sett in a moral position, and that — nes • acted on by influencing their will, not by punishing their in the same He S's.eed manner es other labourers. was further con. at the proje c t pr t ri ining the slaves ft? r *gancipation by making them pass through a medium state was the most absurd nut se Ise that had ever been imposed on a gullible nation—(Hear)—fir he knew that wherever slavery in any form existed, whether as convicts or as slaves, it was associated with the idea of disgrace in the minds of those who were themselves free. Such was the case in the penal settle ments of the country, where a free labourer could scarce be induced to work; such also was the case in Barbadoes, where the whites would suffer any destitution than do the labour performed by slaves. These were his opinions ; and having adopted them, he endeavoured to bring them before the Government of the day. In doing so he strongly urged the necessity of csnceding the measure of emancipation whole and en tire, without any limitations, and without any restrictions ; but, at the same time, he was not so sanguine as to hope even that the deep-rooted prejudices of years, backed by the weight of high and disinterested authority, would disappear before his arguments, or yield to his convic. tions. He had, however, very cheering hopes that his view of the ques tion would be relopted ; and several members of the Cabinet gave him reason to suppose that they would act on it; but it turned out otherwise. It was a perfectly notot ions fact that the measure laid before his Noble Friend, which omitted all mention of compensation, was so strenuously threatened with the opposition of the West India interest, that the Government did not deem it wise or prudent to adopt any of its provisions.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He (Lord Howick) finding it, under these circumstances, hopeless to struggle against so many adverse powers, relinquished his intention in conse quence of the opinions so strongly expressed by influential members of the Government unfavourable to his plan. It was not, in his belief, any betrayal of the secrets of office whets he stated that the Noble Lord who then tilled the office of Lord High Chancellor (Lord Brougham) consi dered it as dangerous because it was too extensive—that he opposed it solely on those grounds, and that it was his opposition that proved fatal to it. The exertions of that Noble Lord in behalf of the negroes before he took office had given the greatest possible weight to his opinions on the subject of emancipation, and, therefore, his opposition put an end to all further hopes of success in the matter. He (Lord Howick) felt that he could then hold office no longer with credit to himself or advantage to the country. A change, however, took place in the interim, and his Noble Friend opposite (Lord Stanley) took office. Three weeks subse quently the Noble Lord introduced the resolutions on which the present motion was founded. These resolutions, as he had already stated, had re ceived the acquiescence of the House on their introduction,as far as theprin ple of apprenticeship was concerned. The then Member for Sheffield (Mr. Buckingham), and perhaps forty or fifty others, might on that oc. casion have joined with him (Lord Howick) in his protest against it, but at least nine-tenths of the House were in its favour. The whole question under discussion hinged 011 this historical fact. The manner in which the measure was introduced by the Government, and enter tained by those who had all through consistently advocated the cause of negro freedom gave all those interested in slave property a strong foun dation for believing that during the limited period prescribed by the law for apprenticeship there would be no alteration made in the Act by the authority of Parliament. But that was not all. When the Act reached the colonies it was well known that the local legislation were by no means favourable to the system of apprentice ship and that they were much divided among !themselves as to whether imm ediate emancipation would not be the better for all parties. The least countenance from the Government at the time, the least rigour as to the term of the compensation, would have induced the Assemblies ti , l grant a total emancipation. If any man would take the trouble of looking at the files of the Jamaica papers at the period, he would find that there was then a very strong party in the House• of Assembly Of that island in favour of unconditional freedom to the negroes. In deed it was very doubtful that it would not have taken place if the Go. velmr had not rather discouraged than encouraged the idea, from a be lief that hp was parrying out the intentions of the Government at home. le, then, this was the state of the case, would it be just to overturn now the arrangement thqs called into existence and thus sanctioned 2 It was alleged, he was aware, by the Honourable and Learned Member for Dublin and others, that there was no contract in being, and that if there had been it was broken by the planters. But that allegation had been eoMpletelY disproved by the arguments of his Right Honourable Friend the Member fer Devonport in the debate of the preceding night. for his own part, that his surprise arose He (Lord Howiels) cOnfeSsed, from the circumstance not of their being so much ground for complaint, but that the system in itself had worked so prosperously, and in his opi nion the Leflisiglife had great cause to congratulate itself that the diffi. culties which had been eneountered were not of a more serious and insur. mountable character. He did pet wish to be understood as implying an opinion that the law should stand a it did, or that the pecuniary interests of the masters should make the House reject the motion. On the contrary he should hail with joy the immediate termination of the state of ap. prentieeship ; but he desired it to be terminated by the local I.egisla. tures, and net by Parliament ; and is to the pecuniary interests of the planters, he had les fear that the just claims of the negroes could be shut out by any compact between the Imperial Legislature and their mas ters. Under all the existing circumstances of the case, it seemed to him now to be of the highest importance to all parties, as well as to the country, that the change to take place in two years should take place without any sudden or violent interruption of the industry of the colo nies. It was important not alone to the masters, but to the apprentices themselves; for their true happiness, their real interest, consisted not in escaping from their present bandage to a state of barbarous indolence, but in assuming a station which would induce them to continue their habits of industry for their own benefit, and ultimately give them a position in a civilised community. The arrival of this result would, however, be most materially retarded by the alienation of the two classes from each other--a result which could not fail to ensue from the adoption of the motion. If the masters and apprentices were at enmity now, the consequences would be deeply injurious to the future happiness and prosperity of both. The motion of the Hon. Baronet was the best calculated to pro. duce that state of discord of any which could be proposed to the House. If it were passed there would be an authorised condemnation by Par liament of the conduct of the masters since 1833, and it would stigma. tize them to the world as oppressors. The House had no right to take such a course—to condemn them in their absence. The course he (Lord Howick) would desire to adopt would be that of giving them the oppor tunity of doing the act -of grace themselves by emancipating the appren tices. It was admitted that new lewd would be necessary, in case of total emancipation ; and yet the House was called on to stultify the re port of its own Commission by the Hon. Baronet's motion. To adopt it now would be turn round and inflict the cruelest injustice not alone on the white population of the colonies, but on the negro population itself. It was on these grounds, and not on such low and despicable ones as the pecuniary interests of the toasters or of the apprentices, that he opposed the motion. He opposed it because, having induced the colonists without any wish of their own to accept our views, we were bound in honour and strict justice not to alter them in such a manner as to inflict a permanent and lasting injury on their in terests, It was on this matter that the measure of his Noble Friend in 1833 entirely failed. What he (Lord Howick) considered as of the greatest importance was the shape which society would assume in the colonies when emancipation should be complete. The fault of his Noble Friend's measure was to make it take place under the greatest disadvantages. By deferring immediate emancipation the gratitude of the whites for their compensation, and the gratitude of the blacks for the boon of their freedom, would be forgotten, and instead of both being in good humour with each other, at the expiration of the proposed period, they would, from the relation in which they were placed towards each other fora space of six years—the mutual ill.will, and bickerings, and bad blood which was sure to ensue in that time—be in quite a contrary temper, and more inclined to oppose each other than to co-operate for their mutual benefit. These were the anticipation, he had formed at the outset of his Noble Friend's measure, and, as far as the matter has as yet gone, they had been fully realised.—(Hear, hear.) By the course, however, which the Honourable Baronet proposed to take this alienation would be carried to the highest possible pitch be tween the parties. That would assuredly be the effect of his resolution. Its adoption would exasperate the feeling of ill-will unhappily so preys. lent at present between the masters and their apprentices into a state of bitter and painful and porpetuous endurance. To take it would be to abandon the chance which still existed of the Colonial Legislature corn. ing forward of their own accord and granting early emancipation to the apprentices—a chance that he did not believe by any means improbable. Indeed there was every reason to hope that such a consummation would take place, and a very strong inducement to it would be found in the passing of the Bill before the House. The restrictions imposed on the planters by it would make them give up the system of compulsory la bour, and seek for other and better influence over their apprentices. Hid knew the House was of a different feeling, but he was of opinion that harsh measures had been dealt out to the Colonial Assemblies. Their measures, no doubt, were as bad as they could well be; but. he might be permitted to doubt whether if, in their place, that House would, under all the circumstances, have legislated better. He believed that the fault was far less in the Colonial Legislation than in the object to which they were called on to direct those efforts. An impossible task had been set them, and they were called on to re. concile contradictions by being made to preserve the right of one man to the compulsory labour of another, and by being required to provide against any abuse of the power necessarily accompanying that right. That was the true secret of their bad legislation. Under the new state of things contemplated by the immediate abolitionists the planters would naturally say, "We shall derive no profit from the negroes' exertions, and so we cannot consent to cripple our hands, and to give up the only choice loft us by the British Parliament." But when, by the new Bill, she power of annoyance was taken away from the planters, he thfught it highly probable that the House of Assembly in Jamaica would say that it was of more advantage to them to give up the apprenticeship altogether and try free labour instead. It was of the greatest consequence that both masters and apprentices should coalesce to arrive at voluntary labour, and all their experience in the West Indies proved that the negroes were equally susceptible of being acted on by the motives which influenced free labourers in this country. The opinions pro. mulgated by Gibbon I'Vakley eight years ago respecting the equal capa bility of the negro in all industrious pursuits, had been since fully sus tained by every candid observer. He thought that the proceedings of those who called themselves the advocates of the Colonial interest, ap peared to be guided rather by passion than by sober judgment. They had allowed themselves to brood over fancied wrongs and sufferings of the negros till they had worked themselves up into what he must call a vindictive feeling against the planters, which they had allowed to mingle with those better motives springing from pure humanity to the negroes. They all knew how deceitful was the human heart, and how easily vir. Wes graduated to their opposites. It appeared to him that their feelings had been suffered, by long dwelling on the sabject, to grow into some. thing of resentment against the great class of proprietors in those colo nies, who, When they were most wrong, should still be looked on with compassion as also the victims of the sins of the British Legislature.— (Hear, hear.) They arid their ancestors had been, by their position, necessarily exposed to the moral blight which corrupts the air wherever slavery is allowed to exist. We had no right to visit with harshness the sharers of our crimes, who had also become our victims.—(Hear.) Let us now treat with firmness, but not with injustice, those whom we had previously encouraged to become oppressors, and we might thus, by dispensing equal and considerate protection to both, hope to convert the districts which had resounded with the clang of chains, and were yet a reproach to British Legislation, into enlightened and religious commu nities.—(Hear, hear.) lie must, in conclusion, warn them of the con. fusion they would create by a precipitate abolition, and the responsibility which attached even to a single vote; for the effect even of a small minority in favour of this untimely proposition might have an effect in unsettling the minds of the negro population that nothing could repair, and for which nothing could compensate.—(Cheers.) Dr. LUSHINOTON said that the Hon. Baronet (Sir G. Grey) In his speech of the previous night. Maintained that the contract had not been violated, except in a few trifling instances, such as chaining and handcuffing women, increasing the hours of labour, and decreasing the food, and other matters, for which his Bill would prove a remedy. H e did not know what his Noble Friend (Lord Howick) thought of the con tract which had been laughed to scorn In the colonies, but he agreed with him that the whole question should be looked at, taut with respect to any petty pecuniary consideration, but entirely with a view to the hehefit of the apprentice. The Noble Lord was originally opposed to the ~E4ein of apprenticeship altogether, and had stated his opposition, when the syetenj was first proposed, in a speech which should be read over and over again. The Noble Lord had now told the House that all k 4 terns t , f 9 r e a taken place, and now that he was tLa t ez t il :,o h a e nd t a he h n al f r o y r e e a s r a s w la . theoi eltrentieeship being yet unex pired, to pas. tome measure to root out those evils, and 'wore the negro to his rights, he said, 1 ! ;' , lo, I have a great respect for Colonial Legisia, Je!mres—they have acted just gs i thot,ght they would have done —they 1 c t o o n s t e in o u rn e ,. a l Tl ,ste tt a a d e of putting an gn 4 t p o w things, tfeg 14,7 to let all this mutual j h e a a v lo e us i Y u a g n il d i ed iti4 you g :he Noble Lord proposed £8 ups an Act to render it impossible Ps - Waal:AY to e system of appren tie eNsik• WAS this f a i r ? was it candid eats; on ,‘..:' or just ? it w,.s traiuty of Parliament to respect. k i l mg aubjects of the .:. empire, and it was bound to ;,,;!slats as well for the interests of the MO' tore as for the comforts of the Regret, jn order to prove his own con sistency, the Learned Gentleman here read 90 extr„.,:t from a speech he had delivered on the Beth of July, 1833, in the House of C,orrapras, in the course of which he 1 0 4 strongly objected to the apprenticeship pr o ' Iposition. In November last apP4etiuti Was made to Mr. Buxton to take part in the agitation of this subject. He replied that though he agreed In the principle of 004tion, yet before he piped in any attempt THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1838. to obtain it, he must be satisfied that there was a reasonoble prospect of success, which he could not then see in the slight feeling which pre. vailed on the subject throughout the country. He accordingly abstained from taking any share in the agitation until the montis of March, and he (Dr. Lushington) pursued the same course, and had no con nection with the agitation wh'ch was going forward. In the mean time Lord Sligo's letter, No. 5, and the blue book was published, and the progress of feeling in the publle mind upon the subject was so great that he wrote to Mr. Buxton to take some part in the agitation of the question. Before the receipt of that letter Mr. Buxton had himselfcome to the same conclusion, and in doing 30 he thought he aeted wisely. Every word that he intended to advance should be founded on three docu ments—the Parliamentary papers four and five, and the pamphlet of Lord Sligo. These documents amply proved that there had been a uniform and constant, though not a universal violation of the contract entered into. He would ask if the House of Assembly participated in the British feeling on this subject ? Did the Grand Juries participate in it, or the petty juries ? Had not the grand juries been visited with severe reprobation by the Government for their disregard to their oaths? Did the law officers of the Crown participate in the feelings of the Go vernmcnt ? On the contrary, their utmost exertions were used to defeat tier Majesty's Government ; and even the King's advocate had been dismissod by Lord Glenelg for pursuing a course hostile to the wishes of the Government. The Learned Gentleman here related a number of instances in which the negroes hail been cruelly dealt with, ..nd said that the whole period of apprenticeship hitherto had been one c,f b:ckerings and sparrings, which this Bill would foster and encourage the continuance of fur the remainder of the term of the apprentice. ships. According to the statements in Lord Sligo's pamphlet even murder passed unheeded in Jamaica — no inquests were held. Where was the indignation of the colonists at these enormities ? There was not a trace of such a feeling throughout the whole annals of Jamaica. If a special magistrate neglected his duty and was dimissed, there were persons to be found who would rally round him and present him with a piece of plate, as a reward and as a mark of their sympathy for his mis. conduct. Were these men to whom it was proposed to intrust for two , y ,b e u a r s s ed a and as t a o h h a a l e l o g e , e , r d e t r h e e d e x a e p r p e r i e s i e , t o i e f a es hpiopw only h a at m h i a l d d e already o be f e o n r s a o worse description of slavery than had ever existed before--men through whom the public faith had been so utterly broken in respect to particu. lars on which the British mind had been so unusually excited ? Would that House, in the face of the British people, who had been thus out. raged, dare to entrust still longer this power to the planters ? Dare they admit to the public that they were aware of all the facts on which the complaints had been founded, and yet propose to continue to these msn the power of committing still further abuses ?—to resort, in fact, to no other remedy than a repetition of that course which had already been found useless and futile ?—to trust to the good will, the principles, and the feelings of men whose great pride had been to neutralise all our efforts—who delighted in evading all our laws—who, when bound down to abstain from flogging their apprentices, laughed at 1 our statutes, and only redoubled their former cruelties ? Was it to these men the British Parliament would dare, in the face of the nation, and of the civilised world, to continue a trust which they had noto riously betrayed, who, when reminded of the statutes. of the Imperial Parliament, answered that they had statutes of their own, and in pur. suance of those local laws, and the licence which they allowed, would proceed to seize and imprison an apprentice—keep her in prison nine months without preferring any charge against her, or obtaining any legal sanction for her detention—chain her by an iron collar to the neck of another unhappy prisoner—and then, At the expiration of nine months, turn her out from gaol the miserable wreck of her former self? Was it to such as these that it was now proposed still longer to entrust the happiness and the lives of the freed negroes ?—(Hear.) He said lives, because it was in evidence that starvation was not un common in the workhouses—that, in fact, the plSnters had acted in violation of that Just law, which required that if liberty was taken from a man, the necessaries of existence should be allowed him in his confinement or his bondage ?—(Bear, hear.) It might be said he was exaggerating isolated cases. lie denied it. The case he had put was by no means a singular one.—(Hear, hear.) Fault had been found with Mr. Stnrge, because, when he discovered these things, he had not communicated them to the Governor. Why, if that gentle. man had turned informer, as it were, to the Governor on every case which came under his notice, how would he have been able to prose cute those inquiries in which it was so necessary for him to pro. ceed without molestation ? It was said that the advocates of przelial emancipation were incurring a heavy responsibility. He, for one, in voting for the resolution, was willing to incur that respon. sibility. He was the more emboldened to the course he took by the example of Lord Sligo, whose opinion on these matters was of high value. It had been said of that Noble Lord, by no mean au thority, that no man was more intimately acquainted than he with the workings of slavery in the West Indies. The recent con duct of the Noble Marquis with regard to his own apprentices, was likely to be immediateiy and generally followed by others. Mr. William Hankey had already signified his determination to emancipate all his negroes alike on the Ist of August.—(Cheers.) He denied that it had been proved that the negroes were unfit to enjoy their freedom. Not withstanding that he had not beers conciliated during the last two years and a half, he nevertheless had exhibited all the qualifications necessary to the full enjoyment of liberty. He (Dr. Lushington) did not see how it was possible to secure the continuance of slavery until 1840, when 50,000 predials would be free from the Ist of August next. In such a state of things, if outrage were adverted, it would certainly only be by tire exercise on the part of the negro, of that patience for which he was proverbial, and which was perhaps to be found to such an extent in the breast of the negro only.—(Cheers.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL could not shut his eyes to the fact that after 40 years' discussion of the subject of slavery—after the Parliament be fore the last had enacted a measure upon the subject which was so far satisfactory that those wire took an interest in the question—those who symyathised with the negroes, and those who opposed them—those who supported the Government, and those who supported the opposition— all agreed in looking on it as a remedy of for all the evils of a deep.rooted and long existent system, it was now proposed (at the very period at which the question was to be finally settled) that this present Parliament should break into that Act and totally change the nature of the relations between the master and the apprentice, contrary to the opinions and wishes of one party, and quite, as he believed, against the expectations of the other, and that they were called upon to put a sudden and ab rupt termination to that to which a fixed period had been assigned. Nor could he shut his eyes to the fact that motives had been urged for the extraordinary pains that had been taken to excite the public mind on this subject, which, when contrasted with those that ought to be excited by so pure and holy a cause, were certainly wholly unworthy of it. However that might be, the proposition was certainly made in the absence of those measures of preparation which persons'on all sides of the House agreed ought to precede emancipation. The dis trust entertained by the 'sincere and ardent friends of the Negroes to. wards the Colonial authorities and Assemblies was at the time urged on the Government as one of the principal reasons for delay. The speech of the Hon. and Learned Member who had just sat down compelled him (Lord J. Russell) to remind the House that they were not now discussing the question whether or not slavery ought to be abolished. That was no longer a subject for discussion in that House, for it was one on which, happily, the mind of the public was made up. Still, it was not to be ex. pected but that such an important change could not be made without some of the dregs and impurities of the old slavery system being retained. One great argument in favour of slavery was, that the slave was better off than the free poor man, in so far that his food and clothing were provided for him by his master. He (Lord J. Russell) did not use such ati ment in favour of slavery, but it was good, as showing that the change from slavery to freedom ought not to be made too suddenly, because the proprietors of the slaves who had formerly felt it incumbent on them to maintain their slaves would, from that time forward, have no longer any interest in doing so, and the freed roan would therefore be de. prived of most essential aids. Those helps which the slave derived from his master, did in some small degree compensate for the horrors and criminality of slavery. At the moment when a change was effected in the social state of the negro, a cessation of these comforts must neceesarily be experienced by him. Caution in effecting the change was therefore a most essential thing. Much had been said about the non-existence of a compact between the Legislature and the West India interest. The fact of the existence of that compact had been, he apprehended, sufficiently made out. With. out attempting to enter into an argument on the nature, legally speaking, of a compact, he would say that he looked upon this as quite clear, that a solemn Act of the British Legislature under which certain interests were created, and by which certain interests were trans ferral, must be held to be binding upon the national honour, and that such an Act could not be altered or abrogated with justice, unless all the interests secured by it were maintained and considered. The Act itself had been productive of favourable results, for the result of the app-enticeship had been that the slave was raised in mind and independ ence of character—a result that could scarcely have been anticipated, had not such an Act been passed. Much misapprehension had been pro. duced as to the actual condition of the apprentices. About three-fifths of the whole number were to be found in Jamaica and British Guiana. To show their condition in the latter, he would read an extract from the speech of the Governor of British Guiana, on the occasion of opening the Colonial Legislature, the 3d February, 1833. The Noble Lord then read the extract, which stated the Governor's belief that the continuance of the apprenticeship system till the year 1840, was identified with the future welfare of that magnificent province. That it was most desirable that the slave should glide almost impercep tibly into the state of perfect freedom: That a good feeling between the employer and the apprentice was daily growing up, the relation being no longer that of master and slave, but of the husbandman who re. quired the assistance of the labourer, in order to till his ground, and of the labourer who was willing to work, in ord.r to provide himself with the necessities of existence; and that it would be highly im prudent to interrupt a system so productive of benefit and of improve. ment in the condition of the labourer. Here was a statement made in the face of the whole world, by one who must have had a sufficient means of forming a judgment, and to whom every one would accord the merit of being most desirous to improve the condition of the slaves. in Jamaica, however, the complaints of the working of the system were very great, and Captain Pringle was accordingly sent ou to in. vestigate. A statement had been received from that gentleman, in which he said, " In my travels in Jamaica I had considerable oppor tunity of observing the state of the country, and of forming my opinion upon it. The crops are above the average of former periods, and the negroes work freely and cheerfully. In many estates the overseers wish to make the apprentices work, and they gave them task work, under the revision of the special magis" trate. They are occupied from 10 a. m. to 3a. m. In the afternoon the same negroes are ready to work for pay. On one estate upwards of 401. a week is paid for free labour of this kind." Here was the opinion of an unprejudiced person. He must say that he was not sur prised to find that the negroes were disposed to be industrious, and that the apprenticeship was serving the purpose for which it was designed -- in fact, that it was producing the result to which the term was generally applied—that of teaching the labourer to support himself by the wages of industry, so that when set wholly free he might not be at a los.. The Noble Lord read other passages from Captain Prin gle's communication, but they were almost inaudible in the gallery. The Noble Lord then referred to the report of the Com mittee appointed to inquire into the working of the system of apprenticeship. The purport of it was that upon the authority of Mr. Buxton, who was one of the members of the Committee, no such measure as that now proposed ought to be adopted. All cases of s ab a u n s c e e w o e f r ewiseverelylliam Williams, punishedwhio:e narrative b y the w Colonial uch dwe authorities, ltu as in the in • The Noble Lord next went on to cont en d t h at the Bill brought in i n n igi b 't ; the Government provided specific remedies for all acknowledged griev. arm... Considering the whole of this subject he would say that they now hadpresented to them certain terms by which all parties held themselves bound—by which Parliament and the country held them selves to be bound. To permit any infraction of those terms would be to do the greatest possible injury to the negro apprentice; for it would bring him into direct hostility with his master. The Noble Lord fur ther observed that the measure now proposed could not in fairness be adopted without granting additional compensation to the planters. But, as additional compensation would neither be politic nor expedient, he did not sec that the House could consistently take any other course than to reject the motion. He protested against the excitement which was raised upon this question, contrary to the calm and dispassionate judgment by the country at large. He hoped that Parliament would not establish the dangerous precedent of yielding rather to excited feeling OM to the dictates of cool reflection. Mr. aT4DSTRNF defended the conduct of the planters, and insisted that there was no foundation whatever for tbe!repeated charged of cruelty which were brought against them. The Hon. Member next went on to i y f thAt Mr. Bl.tton; as a lumber Of the Committee, had admitted thst the apprenticeship systent had worked well the th• Interests of freedom. Though no written or technical compact had been entered into between igliament and the planters, yet it could not be denied that there was a G ampot, awl that it was founde4 on tha mrlasting prinoiplec of Pot t y °. The Hon. Member next referred to sense (Jades, to show that the masters had a pecuniary interest in the existing term of apprenticeship. Th r Honourable Member next adverted to some calculiltion? ! for the MIMS }hit 9 , qq° , 981-1 1 . , cii°l o l 1 *ccY st ' u n, was not ad'ourit9 com'pensatson - for t 19ss swittkined pi,iteco in 4vii* dsprivo 9c . labow. ire y 0,444 to show the real state of things ; and that the clamour which hal been raised as to the planters taking a large price for nothing at all was a fallacy. Then with regard to the payment of wages, it was proved by witnesses that the proprietors wet e required to pay the whole of their compensation money, to keep up a profit on their transactions. The Hon. Gentleman here quoted various cases, to show that the compensation which had been awarded was not sustained ver b o y ge the West India proprietors. The re. produce of sugar, during the three years in which the apprenticeship system had been in force was, 106,360 millions s Iwsa threelesye o l a a , r n , s d t). a 1818,0 But t r t Thathtlheyesr. wouldewtußu But find iif they th e average t ok th ttaolu'ilnirepail;uataonhtfedepnttro; produce , h h u y e e c a e l l , ::::::a t w s he a 7 s , O 7 3 , 7 0 , 3 0 7 0 , 0 0 1 0 . 0 1. I ; n: t the t t it h e r e t e h ry,eoa yearsr s o preceding apprentice_ t 7. t . he of diff th e e ren ye ce ar in j s th l e 4 p g r a i ,, c e e a of , s a u lt g le ar o s f in tw th e e lv s e e toe yheaavres been 8,800,0001. s i n o t : 0 8 0 1 0 6 1. , millions and a half ; and therefore the West Indians received five or 1,770,0001. more than was received at the present moment. He hoped he had proved the fallacy of the opinions which were en. tertaincd. Then as to the question of advantage which it was sup. posed the different islands might possibly have obtained. Jamaica had P the apprentice system; and perhaps h e m i g ht b e allowed profited institutiont fi o t e advert d b y of to t thee apprenticeship produce o J system—ita ! cain the threewas 187. t o years preceding t:l,and the during the three years in which the apprenticeship system had been in ogpreetratthi o on l , o i s t s, w b a n s l, ati fi6, e s l o ), oo t l h . oo lV h len thought that i while the this tact tiiooatio he did ooxi, riot expended so much, the colonies should in turn bear something. Then as to supple mentary legislation on the part of the colonies, this country had not only the sight, but it exercised that right, The Hon. Seconder of the pre sent motion seemed to have overlosked the statements of figures which must have stared him in the face; he had made statements which were wholly unconnected with the allegations which he had made ; he had given anonymous names. He had said in effect, " Oh, put away the apprenticeship system, and I will give you the names of the parties to whom 1 have referred to-morrow." With regard to th.C! defects in the law of Jamaica, the legal abuses were brought before thc cerninlttee of 1836. Mr. Buxton then said, " Looking tfi the remedy propo, e d_ looking to the provisions of this Bill—do We cqnlend for dealing nic e l y with constitutional rights," The Hfin! Learned AleMber for Dublin said, " We are establishing a dospoti.an in tho West Indies." There could be no doubt that we were establishing a dictatorship. No doubt the Government had the absolute control over the negroea, and that it had the force of law in judicial matters ; but in substance he approved of it—was ready to sacrifice their constitutional rights for the sake of affording protection to negroes, But why was not a remedy ap. plied to the existing evils last year ? He did not hesitate to say that it was owing to Mr. Sturge that the evil was not reme. died. Sir Lionel Smith was the governor of Jamaica when Mr. Sturge was in the Island, and the conduct of Sir Lionel Smith, (that eminent man), showed so much temper and so much good sense united as hardly ever were combined; and what right had Mr. Sturge to dis trust the readiness of Sir Lionel Smith to remedy all abuses This gentleman had been appointed by the present Government. What did Mr. Sturge do ? Why, ho made use of the hospitality which was tendered to him!—He said nothing of the complaints which he intended to make—he said nothing to Sir L. Smith. After some turther observations, the Hon. Member said that he should dismiss such an cx parte case. Ho would now go to the proceedings contained in the books, to which he would refer. He would go upon the evidence of a stipendiary magistrate. Yes, let the propounder of anonymous statements say that the stipendiary magistrates were not to be believed. —(Hear.) Who were they ? They were a body of gentlemen chosen to do justice. What was their position there ? It was said that they were dependent on the planters for hospitality ! But hospitality there was not as it was in this country. Hospitality there was extended to the stranger almost as a matter of right. These stipendiary magistrates were dependent on the Government for the continuance of their subsis tence—they were judicial persons—but they did not hold their offices upon judicial tenure; the Governors could turn them out of office at their will and pleasure; but he contended that there was no evidence shown that the stipendiary magistrates had been terrified out of their duty. The Hon. Gentleman had spoken of Jamaica juries, and he (Mr. Gladstone) was glad that they had been done away with. But what were the facts which had been stated ? Why, that there had been two cases where the juries were against the special Justices, where the cases were not considered to be borne out by evidence. The Hon. Gentleman alluded to several cases of this kind. Fifty-five reports had been made from the Special Magistrates, and he had gone through them all. There were twelve questions put in these cases, and these re. ports contained the answers which were given. Nine Magistrates out Fgop t h o. ori ds: generally,3f nineiet6, two itrro h i Hi edn i prsgno u eho.i.,li r ,rii. s pothver : Oede: of the 55 repeated that there was a bad feeling between the masters and apprentices. The next grievance complained of was, the nine•hour sys tem, that it was not generally adopted. Now, what was the report on 5 r Gentleman iglyd: O teetbxihl o,, u e,:team t irgfisy:O o auuvluk, i f bel oygri:srtetheneoan tct ort ttf i hhri relatedsot eeeehi referred to i rtaq:r i tnjiv a ucpu g el etd)na i soo s i,tr mot: Parliamentary stcg o sothenar n io: oro l io y hcypxt eoi documents. hntt c a ueee d uddbii lent, The oe a r special C.ne mit hourstr Committee e . fnet Jamaica,rh!l,oaet rs w r ; e‘rbhxutci:stn%t and e d a e i th n oe j eed am uthc a ae ica, which could'not be removed. But improvement might be made in that respect, and he would refer to the exertians of Mr. Latrobe, not, he believed, a member of the Church. who was sent out by the present Government for investigating the state of education in Jamaica. He gave a distinct testimony on this subject. The Hoe. Member here referred to various reports in confirmation of statements which he bad made, and next proceeded to the state of prisons and the number of punishments which had been inflicted in Jamaica. From the tables quoted by the Hon. Member, it appeared that the number of floggings an d other punishmenta had considerably decreased. Hewould now co me to British Guiana, which, until last night, bad never been ar raijned. It was said that there was a decreasing population and an in creasing produce. The fact was, that heassumed the decrease of popu lation, and as to the increase of produce, the fact was, that in the last three years of slavery, the produce of Guiana was 36,000 tons of sugar, while in the three years of apprenticeship the amount was 37,600 tons. This was all the increase of produce, and he much doubted the decrease of population. From the silence of the Governor on the subject of the sick, he must conclude that the Government deemed it to be generally humane. Prior to the apprenticeship system the number of lashes inflicted in Guiana was no less than 200,000, while under the apprenticeship system they had been reduced to 680 lashes.—(Hear.) Were Hon, Gentlemen then justified in saying that the apprenticeship system had been a decided failure?—(Hear.) He held in his hand a newspaper published in Lion - kerma, from which, hwas proud to say, that wisest the Highlanders of Scotland were in distress last year, the apprentices in Demerara actually sent to Scotland as their subscription to relieve that distress, the sum of 261.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Jeremy, who was well known to the House, had told him, in the presence of several Hon. Members, that the Government of Guiana was, upon the whole, satisfactory and sufficient. Compare the state of the English manufacturing operative, or of the factory child, obliged to work so many hours a day, to that of the apprentice in Guiana, who lias only to work eight or nine hours. Compare the Irish peasant with 6d. a day with the apprentice in the West Indies, and say which is in the more advantageous position. He had no apprehension of the result of that debate, for he did not believe that the proposed resolution would even, be carried in that House.—(Loud cheers.) The gallery was then cleared for a division, when tho numbers were-- . For the Original Motion 2oi For the Amendment 269 Majority for the Amendment .--Q4 The Bill was then read a second time, and committed for Monday next. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at half-past oise, until Monday. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY,) (From our Second Edition of last night.) HULL. The Committee met at the usual hour, when the cross.examination of Turner was resumed, as to the vote of John Appleby, whose case was partly gone through yesterday. ' After the arguments of Counsel had been concluded, the Committee struck off the vote. treated with glasses of grog by young Mr. Dryden—that Jacob Lissons was next objected to. It appeared from the evidence of Ely Rusting that during the time of the election the voter was em. ployed as a runner by the Blue Committee at the Shakspeare—that he room was He could Anna Maria Meggitt gave similar testimony. rweafrsefsrhegm'elenntstiwY were provided at the house fur the voters, &c. was engaged a week Mr. John Nixom, druggist, was next examined. He stated that he was frequently at the Shakspeare during the election, and that he was a member of an open Committee, of which Mr. Ullathorne, Mr. Henry King, and Mr. Buchanan, were also members. They were frequently reemtehneferol election i other on byw itndistricts.ess and de Mr.roo not say who was the Chairman. The chair was sometimes occupiod by himself, and sometimes by Mr. Ullathorne. In the course of the proceedings Mr. LEIGDALR took occasion to language frequently used by the Counsel fot the petitioners, notice the remarking that the insinuations thrown out were such as ought not to a o s r s i t s e t n e I d a b y Y s g b e e n f t o l be made, and that it was an abuse of the privileges of Counsel. Mr. Ilasrre concurred in these remarks, as did also the Chairman. The examination of Mr. Nixon had not concluded when the Commit. tee adjourned at four o'clock. . - . KINSALE. When the Committee rose to-day the Sitting N en ,b was in a ma, iurity of ono. 1838.—The following is the House List of Go vernors and Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing:— FOR GOVERNORS. Timothy Abraham Curtis, Esq., Governor. Sir John Rae Reid, Bart., Deputy Governor. FOR DIRECTORS. Robert Barclay, Esq. Jamei Morris, Esq. John Bowden, Esq. George Warde Norman, Esq. H enr y Davidson, Esq. John Horsley Palmer, Esq. Abel Lewes Gower, Esq. - James Paulson, Esq. 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Motion made, and Question proposed,—" That this House is of opinion that the Apprenticeship in the British Colonies, established by the Act 3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 73, shall determine on the Ist day of August 183 S :"---( Sir George Strickland : )—Amend.. wont proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to the end 01 the Question, in order to add the words " the Order of the Day for the Second Reading of the Slavery Abo!ition Act Amendment Bill, be now- read,"_( Sir George Grey,)—instead thereof :—Ques tion put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part or the Question :"—The House divided MINORITY- : AYES, 205. Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermouth Alford, Viscount—Bedfordshire Alsager, R.—Surrey .A.lston, Rowland—Herefordshire Archbald, Robert K adore Attwoo I. 111.—Whiehavela Bagot, Hon. W.—Denbighshire 13 tiley, Joseph—Worcester Bainbridge, E, T.—Taunton Baines, Edward—Leeds Baker, Edward—Wilton Barnard, E, G.—Greenwich 13,amish, F. B.—Cork Berkeley, lion. C.—Cheltenham Berkeley, Hon. F. H.—Bristol Bewes, T —Plymouth 131ackstone, W. S.—Wallingford Blake, Martin J.—Galway Blunt, Sir Charles-=Lewea 11 ;rlkin, J. J,Golway Co, 1 301der0, Howl 0.—t0;.... Brabazon, Sir v.T"• ~en ham B. a. am.—Mayo Co. ..getnan. Hewitt--Ennis Briscoe, J. I.— Wes,bury Broadwood, Ilenry—Bridgewater 13rocklehurst, J.— 3:acclestiold Brodie, W. B.—Salisbury s'rotherton, J.—Salford Browne, R. D.—Mayo Bruges, VV. H. L.—Bath Bryan, Maj. Geo.—Kilkenny Co. Buller, Sir J. Yarde—l)evonshire Bulwer, E. L.—Lincoln Busfleld, W.—Bradford Butler, Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co Bytig, George—Middlesex Cantilupe, Viscount—Helston Cayley, E. S.—N. Yorkshire Chalmers, Patrick—lnverbervie Chandos, Marquis of—Bucks Chester, Henry —Louth Co. Chetwynd, Major W.—Stafford Chisholm, A. W.—lnverness-shire Clive, Edward /3.—Hereford Collier, John—Plymouth Collins, W.—Warwick Colquhoun, Sir J.—Dunbartonshirc Conyngham, Lord A.—Canterbury Copeland, W. I.‘.—Stoke-upon-Trent Craig, W. G.—Edinburghshire Cri;ips, Joseph—Cirencester Dashwood, G. H.—Wycombe Denison, W. J.—West Sussex Denistoun, J.—Glasgow D'Eyncourt, Right Hon. C. T.— Lambeth De Horsey, S. H.—Newcastle-under, Lyme D'lsraeli, B.—Maidstone Divert, Edward—Exeter Duff, James—Banffshire Duke, Sir James—Boston Duncombe, T. S.—Finsbury Mantas, C. W. D.—Flint Dundas, Hon. J. C.—York Dungannon, Lord _Durham Easthope, J.—Leicestrr Eaton, R. J.—Cambridgeshire Egerton, Sir P.—Cheshire Eliot, Lord—East Cornwall Ellis, John—Newry Etwall, Ralph—Andover Evans, G.—Dublin County Evans, William—North Derby Farnham, E. 13.—N. I.eicestershire Feilden, W. J.—Blackburn Elelden, John—Oldham Fe , tton, John—Reelidale Ferguson, Sir It. C.—Nottingham Finch, F..—Walsall Fitzroy, Lord C.—Bury St, Ram. Fitzroy, Hon. Henry—. Lewes Fleetwood, P. 11,—Preston Foley, E. T,..—llerefordshire Fort, J,—Clitheroe Gibson, Thomas—lpswich Gillon, Wm. D.—Linlithaow Glynnerir S, 11,--Flintshire Gore, Ormsby—Salop bore, O. J. lt.—Carnarvonshiro Goring, H. D.—New Shoreharis Grattan, Henry—Meath Greenaway, Charles—Leominster Grimsditch, T...-Macclesfield Grote, George—London Guest, J. J.—Merthyr rydvil Hall, Benjamin—Marylebone Halse, J.—St. Ives Handley, Henry—Lincolnshire Harland, W. C.—Durham Harvey, D. W.—Southwark Hawes, Benjamin—Lambeth Heathcoar, J.—'Tiverton Hill, Lord A. M. C.—Evesham liindley, Charles—Ashton Hodges, T L.—West Kent Hollond, Robert--Hastings Hors/flan, Edward—Cockermouth Hoskins, K.—Herefordshire Ilumphery, John—Southwark Hurst, It. H.—Horsham Jame;, Villiam—Cumberland 'Jervis, S.—Bridport Johnson, W. Augustus—Oldham June+, John—Carmarthen shire Jones, Wilson —Denbigh Kinneird, Hon. A. F.—Perth Langdale, Hon ,C.—Knaresborouoh Langton, Col (lore--Somers.A J Leader, J. 'Pempl,—Westmitnlter Lennox, Lord J. G.—West StlsatK Lennox, Lord A.—Chlchettit Litton, Uward—Colcrai.s. Lowther, J. la. --fork Lushlngton, Dr.—Tower Ham!. Lushinton, Charles—Ashburton Mai:l;4)ll°n, W. A.—Lymington ' hlaher, Jno.—Wexford Co. marsland, I-Icnry—Stockport M. artin. JAn—Tewkesbury ..tatcr, Colonel—Cirencester Maunsell, T. P.—Northampt nshire Meynell, Captain H —Libbuilie Miller, Wm. H,—Noweastle-uader. Lyme Nh.losworth, Sir William—Leeds Monypenny, T. G.—Rye Morris, D.—Carmarthen Muskett, George A..—St. Alban's Nagle, Sir 11.—Wes meath Jriseill-141;;11ain Neeld, John—Cricklade Noel, William M. —Rutland O'Brien, \V. S.—Limerick Co. O'Connell, Daniel--Dublin O'Connell, John—Athlone O'Connell, M. J.—Kerry O'Connell, Morgan—Heath 0 Connell, Maurice—Tr:dee Owen, Sir J.—Pembrokeshire Paget, Frederick—Beaumaris Parke, R. T.—Preston Parker, T. A. W.—Oxfordshire Pattison, James—London Pechell, Captain—Brighton Peel, Col. Jonathan—Huntingdon Philipps, Sir R.—Haverfordwe.t e Phillpotts, John—Gloucester igot, Robert—Llridgenorth t Pallid!, Frederick—Bedford Poulter, J. S.—Shaftesbury Powell, Colonel- -Cardiganshire Powerscourt, Viscount—Bath l'rotherce, Edward—Halifax Pryse, Pryse—Cardigan . Redington, T. N.—Dundalk nice, Edward Royd—Dover Richards, Richard—Merionethshire Rippon, C.—Gateshead Roche, E. B.—Cork CO, Round, John—Haldon Rundle, John—Tavistock Russell, Lord—'lavistock Salwey, Lieut.-Col.—Ludlow Sanderson, Richard—Colchester Sanford, E. A.—Somersetshire Scale, Colonel—Dartmouth Sibthorp, Colonel—f.incoln Sinclair, Sir G.—Caithness -shire Smith, Hon. 11.—Wycurnhe Smyth, Sir G. H.—Colchester Somerville, Sir ill, W.—Drogheda Stanley, W. Hassey—Pontefract Stansfiehi, W. It. C.—Huddersfield Staunton, Sir George Thomas Stewart, James—tioniton Strangways, Han, John—Dorset Stuart, Henry—Bedford Style, Sir Charles —Scarborough Thompson, Ald.—Sunderland Thornley, Thos.—Wolverhampton Tollemache, Hon. F.—Grantham Townl.l, ltd. G.— Cambridgeshire French, Sir F. Scarborough Twiner, Edmund—Truro Turner, W.—Blackburn Verner, William—Armagh Co. Vigors, N. A.—Carlow Co. Villiers, C. P.—Wolverhamptota Vivian, John Henry—Swansea Wakley, Thomas- Finsbury Walsh, Sir John—Sudbury Warburton, H.—Biidport Ward, H. G.—Shettield Welby, Glynne Earle—Grantham Wemyss, Captain—Fifeshire White, Andrew—Sunderland ‘Vbitmore, T. C.—llridgenorth Wilkins, Walter—Radnorshire Williams, William—Coventry Wilshere, William—Yarmouth Winnington, T. E.—Bewdlcy Vs innington, H. J.—Worcestershire Wood, Sir Matthew—London Wood, G. W.—Kendal Worsley, Lord—Lincolnshire Wyse, Thomas—Waterfora Yorke, Hon. E. T.—Cambridgeshire TELLERS. iftrickland, Sir G.—West Yorkshire Pease, Joseph—South Durham MAJORITY• Acheson, Lord—Co. of Armagh Aeland, Sir T. I).—N. Devonshire Aeland, T. D.—West Somerset Adam, Rear-Adm. Sir C,—Chtek. -NOES, 2CO. Kernble, 1 - L -West Surrey Knit, Peter-Carrickfergus Knatchbull, Sir E.-Eab,t Kant Knight, It G.-Not th ighamshire Labouehere, Right Hon. Henry-- Taunton Lambton, 11,-North Durham Lascellee, Hon. W. S.- Wakefield Lefevre, C. Shaw-North Hants Lemon, Sir Charles-West Cornwall Leveson, Lord-Morpeth Liddell, Hon. 11.-North Durham Loch, James-Kirkwall Lockhart, A. M.-Lanarkshire Logan, Hart-West Suffolk Lygon, Hon. Colonel H, 8.-West Wor . estershire Lynch, A. H.-Galway Mackenzie, Thomas-Ress.shire Mackenzie, W. F.-Peeblesshire Maclean, Donald-Oxford M`Leod, R.-Inverness M'Namara, Maj. W. N.-Clare Co. M'Taggart, John-Wigton Mahony, Pierce-Kinsale Marshall, Wm.-Carlisle Marton, Geo.-Lahcaster Maule, Hon. Fox-Elgin Burghs Melgund, Viscount -Hythe Mildmay, P. St. John-Winchester Manes, R. M.-Pontefract Mordaunt, Sir John-Warwickshire Morpoth, Lord-Yorkshire Murray, Right Hon. J. A.-Leith Nieholl, J -Cardiff Norrcys, Lord-Oxfordshire Northland, Viscount-Dunganuon O'Brien, Cornelius-Clare O'Callaghan, Hon. C.-Dungarvan °Terrill, Richard M.-Kildare O'Neill, lion. J. B. IL-Antrim Ord, W.-Neweastle-upon.Tyne Ossulston, Lord-N. Northumber land • Parke, Chas. Wm.-Leicestershire Paget, Lord Alfred-Lichfield Pakington, J. S.-Droitwich Palmer, iaries Fyshe-Reading Palmer, Robert-Berke Palmer, George-Essex Palmerston, Viscount-Tiverton Parker, John-Sheffield Parker, Montagu-Devon Parnell, Sir H.-Dundee Patten, J. Wilson-Lancashire Peel, Right Hon. Sir IL-Tamworth Pemberton, Thomas-Ripon Pendarves, E. W.-W. Cornwall Philips, Mark-Mancbe s tor Philips, 0. IL-Poole Pinney, W.-Lyme Regis Humptre, John p.—East Kent Ponsonhy, Hon. John-Derby Power, James-Wexford Co. Power, John-Waterford Praed, W. M.-Aylesbury l'rice, Sir IL-Herefordshire Pusey, Philip-Berkshire Ramsbottom, J.-Windsor Reid, Sir J. Rae-Dover Rice, Right Hon. 'l'. S.-Cambridge Rich, H.-Knaresborough Rickford, W,- Aylesbury Roche, l/ivid-Limerick Rolfe, Sir It. M.-Penrhyn Rose, Sir George-Christchurch Ruiwbold, C. E.-Yarmouth Itushbrooke, Colonel-West Suffblk Itushout, George Bowles-Evesham Russell, Lord John-Stroud Russell, Lord C. J. F.-Bedfordshire Sandon Lord-Liverp oo l • Scoriae, lion. J. Y.-Guildford scarlett, Hon. Robert-Norwich Serope, Poulett-Stroud Seymour, Lord-Totness Sharpe, Cleneral-Dumfries S:ieil, Richard Lalor-Tipperary Shelborne, Earl of-Caine Sheppard, Thomas-Frome Shirley, E. J -Warwickshire Smith, J, A.-Chichester Smith, Abel-Heitfordshire Smith, It. Vernon-Northampton Somerset, Lord G.-Monmouthshire Speirs, Alexander-Richmond Spencer, Hon. F.-Midhurst Spry, Sir S. T.-Bodmin Standish, Charles-Wigan Stanley, Lord-North Lancashire Stanley, \V. 0.-Anglesea Stewart, John-Lyznington Strutt, Edward - Derby Stuart, Lord J.-Ayr Stuart, Villiers-Waterford Co. Sturt, Henry Charles-Dersetshire Sugden, Sir E.-Ripon Surrey, Earl of-West Sussex Talbot, C. IL M.-Glamorganshire Talbot, J. H.-New Ross l'ancred, 11. W.-Banbury Teignmouth, Lord-Marylebone. Thomson, Right Hon. C. P.-Man i chestei Trevor, Hon. G. R.-Caermartherisli Trout/ridge Sir T. E.-Sandwich Vere, Sir d. 8.-East Suftblk Verney, Sir H.-Buckingham Villiers, Viscount-Weymouth Vivian, Major Charles-Bodmin Vivian, John Ennis-Truro Vivian, Sir R. 11.-East Cornwall Walker, ft.-Bury, Lancashire Wall, . Baring-Guildford Westenra, Hon. H. IL-Monaghan White, Lieut .Col. Saml.-Leitrim tVilbraham, George-Cheshire Williams, Robert-Dorchester Williams, \V. A.-Monmouthshire Wodehouse, Edmund-Norfolk Wood, Charles-Halifax Wood, Thomas-Middlesex Wolilte, Mr. Serjeant--Cashel Wr ghtson, W. 11.-Northallm tots Wynn, Right lion. C. W.-Mont gomeryshire Yates, J. Ashton .Carlow Young, John -Cavan TELLERS. Stanley, E. John-North Cheshire Steuart, itobert —Haddington . . manuan Ad ra, Lord—GlAMOrganshire Ainsworth, P,...aloiton Anson, Lioni. Col,—Staffordshlre I Arbuthnot, Gen.—Kincardineshire I Ashley, Lord—Dorsetsbire bane, W.—West Norfolk D.—Honiton Ball, Nicholas—Clonmell riannerman, A.—Aberdeen Baring, F. Thornhill—Portsmouth Baring, F.—Thetford Baring, H. B.—Marlborough Baring, W. B.—North Staffordshire Barron, H. W.—Waterford City Barr , G. S.—Cork Co. Bell, Matthew—S. Northumberland Bellew, 11. M.—Louth flentinck, Lord G —Lynn Bentinck, Lord W —Glasgow Blackburne, I. J.—Warrington Blackett,C.—South Northumberland Blair, J. Wigtowshire Blake, W. J.—Newport Bolling, W.—Bolton Bramston, T. W.—Essex South Broadley, Henry—East Yorkshire biownrigg, J. S.—Boston Buller, E.—North Staffordshire Burroughes, H. N.—East Norfolk Right Hon.•G. S —Chatham Csleraft, John Hales—Wareham Callaghan, 13,—Cork City Campbell, W. F.—Argyleshlre Canning, Right Hon. Sir Lynn Cavendish, Hon. C.—East Sussex Cavendish, Hon. G. H.—N. Derby Chapman, Aaron—Whitby Chute, W. L. W.—West Norfolk Clay, W.—Tower Hamlets Clayton, Sir William—Marlow Clements, Visc.—Leitrim Co. Clive, It. IL South Shropshire Colquhoun, John C —Renfrew Compton, H. Combo—Hampshire Conolly, Edward M.—Donegal Coote, Sir C.—Queen's County Corry, Hon. H. L.—Tyrone Co. Courtenay, P.—Bridgewater Crawford, W.—London Currie, Itaikos—Northampton Curry, William—Armagh Dalmeny, Lord—Stirling Darby, George—East Sussex Darlington, Earl of—Shropshire Dick, Quintus—Maldon Duttin, A, R.—Southampton Douglas, Sir C. G.—Warwick Douro, Marquis—Norwich Dowdeswell, W,—Tewkesbury Dundas, Frederick—Orkney Dandas, Hon. T.—Richmond . Fast, James Buller—Winchester Ebrington, Viscount—N. Devon Egerton, W. Tatton—Cheshire Egerton, Lord Francis—Lancashire Eliot, Hon. J. E.—Roxburghshire Ellice, Capt. A.—Harwich Ellice, Right Hon. K—Coventry Ellice, Edward—St. Andrew's Estcourt, T. 0. B.—Oxford Univ. Estcourt, T. Junior—Devizes Euston, Earl—Thetford Fazakerley, J, N,—Peterborough Fellowes, Edw.—Huntingdonshire Ferguson, Sir It. A.—Londonderry Ferguson, R,....Klrkaldy Fergusson, Right Hon. 8.. C.—Kirk. endbriglit Fllmer, Sir E.—West Kent Fitzgibbon, Hon. R.—Limerick C.. Fitzshnon, Nicholas—King's Co. Fleming, John—Hampshire Follett, Slr \V.—Exeter Forester, Hon. G.—Wenlock Fremantle, Sir Thomas —Bucks French, Fitzstephm—Roscommon Gladstone, W,E.—Newark-on-Trent Goddard, Ambrsoe—Cricklade Gordon, Robert—Windsor Gordon, Hon. W.—Aberdeenshire Goulburn, Right Hon, H.—Cain bridge University Graham, Sir James—Pembroke Grattan, James—Wicklow Co. Greene, Thomas—Laneastet Grey, S trCharles Edward Grey, Sir George—Devonport GriinstonVlitxiunt—llertfordshire Raiford, Fleury — Leizestershire Harcourt, G. G.--Oxlbrdshire Harcourt, G. S.—Bucks Hastie, Archibald --Paisley Hawkins, J. H.—Newport, I. Wight tlayter, W. G.—Wells Heneage, E.—Grimsby Henniker, Lord—East Suffolk Herbert, Hon. S.—South Wilts [ferries, Right Hon. J. C.—Harwich, Ilinde, John Hodgson—Newcastle-' ul 46 ll.Tyne titibliouse, Right lion. Sir .1, Cam Nottingham Hodgson, Frederick—Barnstaple Hodgson, ltd,—,Berwick-on.Tweed Ho g as BerwickW.-onTweed Hope, G. W.—Weymouth Hope, H. T.—Gloucester Houston, G. J.—ltentl-ewshire Howard, F. J.—Youghall Howard, P. H.—Carlisle Howick, Visc.—Northumberland Hughes, W. B,—Carnarvon ' Hume Jo , e,,h—Kilkenny Hurt, Francis—South Derby Hutton, Robert—Ditblin I ngestre, Viscount—Staffordshire Ingham, R. -South Shields Inglis, Sir It. H.—Oxford University Irton, Samuel—Cumberland Irving, John—Antrim Co. Jenkins, RichaN—Shrewsbury Jernivns Earl—Bury, Suffolk Johnstone, J. J. I T.—Dumfries:shire Jones, T.—Londonderry Gw NEenoroLis CEATETURY BILL.—We congratu late the public upon the success they have gained through the generalship of Messrs. Hall and \Vakley, in again, freeing the ?Olio of being deprived of their beautiful meadows of Hamp stead, by the promoters of 'A the City of the Dead" from converting them ruto,eltureit ya.ids. The Necropolis Ceme tery Bill, lasi in the Committee yesterday, pot the ghiund that the preamble of the Bill was not p - paved, viz.— " That its establishment would not he CA-..r the benefit of the public." Thus bay* not; bean twice before Parliament, area in each House thra,wtt - Out for the same reasons , it i s hoped that talivonauy is now buried for ever, FROM LAST NIGHT'S GTi CROWN OFFICE, MARCH 30, 183 Mr.3IBERS RETURNEp TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT r BOROUGH OF SUDBURY.—.Sir John Benn Walsh, 1 43ite qr-, Illt tlt - 144„4 4. square, in the county o f Middl esex, B art., in the room of :ettlt4;.4l:fit, nant-General Sir Edward Barnes, G.C.8., deceased. BOROUGH 01' MAinsTovr..—John Minet Fector, Esq., in fhe room of Wyndham Lewis, Esq., decea•rd. IVAR-OFFI;21-:, Mauch 30. Ist Regiment of Dragon Guards..Sergeant•najor J. Mimi Id be Quaermaster, vice J. B rown , w h o ret i res upcn lialqaye March 3O. 4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards ---A. Rolls, Cent. tq Cornet, by purchase, vice yokes, who retires, March 30, 3(1 Regiment of Light Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon A. M.D.Wood, . 20. from the 11th Li g ht D ragoons, to 11 ess• A ant. S urgliOn i March • 4th Regiment of Light Dritgocina-_4 . S ymon d s. o at to Cornet, 11"1“1". T t6 ". ' „ who retiret, , Match HO. fish Regiment a 001 un.'" . r. tt. l'yrtil to he g neceased, Nlarch :;t). 19th Foot—Lieut, T. 1111toti to be Captain, by purcir . ,,,, o et. Chambers, who retires ; Ensign J. T. Bowdon) to tpi by purchase, vice Hilton ; Ker, Gent.. tt/ b : nsign, by intro chase, vice Bowdoin, March 30. 23d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon J. Connell, late Of the 3d Rtgi ment of Light Dragoons, to he Assistant-Surgeon March 30. 2Zith Foot—Ensign H. Gongh to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice-Eth H elsten who retires ; .F. Cu s t, G ent, to ha Ensign, by purchase, vice Gough, March 30; J. Ogilvy, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice J. A. Ogilvy who retires, March 31. 26th Foot—Major-General Sir 1. Colborne, G.C.8., from the 94th Foot, to be Colonel, vice General the Earl of Dalhousie, G. C.D. deceased, March 28. 31st Foot— Lieut.-General Sir C. Halkett, K. C. 8., front the 71st Foot, to 'oe Colonel, vice Lieut.-General Sir E. Barnes, G.C.8., deceased, March 28. 36th Foot—R. C. Bruce, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Molley, who retires, March 30. 42d Foot—Lieut. G. B. Cumberland to be Captain,ly vice Gatlishore who retires ; Ensign C. - Murray to be Lieutenant, by purchace, vice Cumberland ; J. Grant, Gent., to be, Ensign, by purchase, vice Murray, March 30. 67th Regiment—Lieut. P. Brannan to be CaptpLn, 'without pur chase, vice Carruthers, deceased; Ensign Ws Plisworth to be Lieutenant, vice Brannan, March 18; G , ;ntleman Cadet J. L. Campbell, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Pilsworth, March 30. 69th Foot—Ensign T. J. Kearoey to be Adjutant, vice Mun dell, who resigns the Adjutant, y only, March 30. 71st Foot—Major-Gene...al Sir S. F. Whittingham, K.C.B. to be Colonel, vice Lieut^..oant-General Sir C. Halkett, appointed to the command of th. e 3lst Foot, March 28; C. C. H. Grant, Gent. to be Assistant-- Surgeon, March 30. 94th Foot - Major-General Sir T. M‘Mahon, Bart., K. C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Major-General Sir John Colborne, appointed to, the command of the 26th Foot, March 28. HOSPITAL STAFF. G. A. Cowper, M.D., to be Assistant -Surgeon to the Forces, vice Hawthorn, deceased, March 30. COMMISSARIAT. Commissariat Clerk J. S. Le Lievre to be Deputy Assistant- Commissary-General, Nov. 7, 1836; Commissariat Clerk W. F. Mends to be Deputy Assistant-Commissary-General, July 1, 1837. Dl EMO R A ND UM. J. Connell, lately superseded as Assistant-Surgeon in the 3d Light Dragoons, has been reinstated in his rank. The name of the Ensign apl-ointed to the 47th Regiment of Fo o t on the 24th Mar c h, 1838, is R. J. Elrington,' and not 'R. J. Ebrington,' as stated in the Gazette of 23d Instant. The commission of the under-mentioned Officer has been can celled from Ist April 1838, inclusive, he having accepted a com muted allowance for his half-pay ; Lieutenant G. M. C. Bowen, half-pay 39th Regiment of Foot. MEM 0 B ANDUM. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to permit the 2d, or Royal North British Regiment of Dragoons, which already has the badge of an Eagle upon its buttons, in commemoration of its having captured a French Eagle at the battle of Waterloo, on the 16th June 1815, to bear that distinction upon its standards. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. 24. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Fniey, to appoint James Thomson, Esq., one of her ;Majesty's HolV. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, vice Belcher, resigned. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, M.sacit 24. The Queen was been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Foley, to appoint 2Esculapius Field, Esq., one of her 'Ainjesty's H on . Corps of Gentl emen a t A rms, b y purchase, rice null, retired. WHITEHALL, MARCH 24. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Jorseph Phirtipst, of Chippen ham, in the County of Wilts, Gent., to be a Masttr Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATIONS JF INSOLVENCY. WILLIAM DEVEY, s po'on-manuttourer, Birmingham. EDWARD RUSSELt BELL, common brewer, Hoxton Old Town. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. JOSEPH F,:vIITH HOLDSWORTIL corn-merchant, Lower Edmonton, from April 13 to 28, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. BANUPTCY SU. WILLIAM DENNIKRNG, butcher,P Ottery ERSEDED St. Mary, Devon. shire. BAKRPTS. JOHN MAY, mercer, Ne N wpor U t, Isle of Wight, to surrender April 9, and May 11, at twelve, at the Bugle Inn, Newport. Hearn, Newport; Fosters and Evans, Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn, London. ANGUS MORRISON, grocer, Watford, Hertfordshire, April 10, at 12, and May 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Al sager, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, official assignee ; Dods, Northumber land-street, Strand. JOHN HENDERSON, horse dealer, High Crosby, Cumber land, April 10 and May 11, at eleven, at the Crown and Mitre Inn, Carlisle, Cumberland. Capes and Stuart, Bedford-row, London ; Saul, Carlisle. WILLIAM ROUTLEDGE, cattle dealer, Oakshaw, Cumber land, April 10 and May 11, at eleven, at the Crown and Mitre Inn, Carlisle, Cumberland. Capes and Stuart, Bedford-row, London ; Saul, Carlisle. ADAM SCOTT, builder, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, April 14, and May 11, at two, at the Vine Inn, Stourbridge. Clowes and Wedlake, King's Bench-walk, Temple, London ; Collis, Stourbridge. WILLIAM WALKER, warehouseman, Kingston-upon-Hull, April 18, and May 11, at eleven, at the George Inn, Kingston upon-Hull. England and Shackles, Hull ; Rosser and Son Gray's Inn-place, G ra y' s I nn, L on d on. , RICHARD CLARK, hotel-keeper, Bognor, Suxsex, April 6, at one, and May 11, at twelve, at the Court of ;Bankruptcy, Basingliall-street. Turquand, Copthall-buildings ; Lock, Surrey street. Strand. RICHARD FRANCIS WEBB, ship-chandler, Whiteehapel „ Middlesex, April 10, at one, and May 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basingliall-street. Foster, Groom, Abchurch-lane; Swan and Martin, Bedford-row. JONAS STEAD, woollen cloth manufacturer, Armley, York shire, April 7, and May 11 , at eleven, at the Court House, Leeds. Dunning and Kenyon, a n d F o d en, L ee d s ; M akinson and Sanders, Middle Temple, I.bndon. CHARLES - HENRY ROWE, woollen-draper, Cheltenham, Gloucesteraltire l , April 14, and May 11, at three, at the Royal Hotel , Chelterdiam. Pope, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Bishop, Dursley. THOMAS HOOD, currier and leather-seller, Birmingham, April 7, and May 11, at twelve, at Dee's Hotel, Birmingham. Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Ingleby and Wraggs, Bir mingham. FRIEND LAWRENCE, general dealer, New Cut, Lambeth, April 5, and May 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Abbott, King's Arms-yard, Official Assignee ; Spyer, Broad street-buildings. ROBERT MACK MORNEMENT, grocer, Burnham West gate, Norfolk, April 28, and May 11, at ten, at the Crown Inn, Fakenham, Norfolk. 'Wood and Blake, Falcon-street, Aldersgate street, London ; Gridley, Burnham, Westgate, Norfolk. THOMAS ROBSON, chemist, East-cheap, April 5 and May 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, of f icial assignee, Basingliall-street ; Crosby, Church -street, Old Jewry. JOHN LORDEN and NATHANIEL lIADLEY, builders, Herne-bay, Kent, April 17, and May 11, at eleven, at the Guild ball, Canterbury. Kaye, Symond's Inn, Chancery-lane, London. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. R. Reynham, stationer, Theobald's-road, April 22, at half-pas one-P. Jay, linen draper, Watford, Hertfordshire, April 23, at half-past eleven-W. Bryceson, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, April 20, at half-past twelve-G. B. Brown and Co., merchants, New Broad -street, AOl 25', at one. In the Country. J. and W. Walmsley, cotton spinners, Manchester, April 25, at ten, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester-J. Wootton, Blandford Forum, Dorsetshir e , A pr il 23 , at twe l ve, at the Grey hound Inn, 131andform Forum-W. Pitt, grocer, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, April 23, at eleven, at the Black Horse Inn, Kid derminster-F. Balkwill, corn factor, Plymouth, April 23, at eleven, at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth-R. Jones, grocer, Liver pool, April 18, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool -Wm. Bolton, linen draper, York, April 23, at eleven, at the Commis sioners -rooms, Manchester-R. Cotton and J. Keam, quarrymen, Oreston, Devonshire, April 21, at eleven, at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth-G. Baker, sen., and G. Baker, jun., provision mer chants, Portsea, April 21, at two, at the George Inn, Portsmouth -A. Birks, linen draper, Manchester, April 23, at ten, at the Com missioners' Rooms, Manchester-R. W. Rushforth, merchant, Manchester, April 23, at twelve, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester-T. Daniell, copper-smelter, Trelissick, Cornwall, May 4, at eleven, at Pearce's Hotel, Truro, Cornwall. CERTIFICATES, Aram 20. T. IV. Clarke, innkeeper, Horncastle, Lincolnshire-W, Per kins, dealer, Clifford Mill, Beckington, Soraersetshire--B. Boothby, sen., and B. Boothbv, jun., iro n f oun d ers , N ott i ng h am -T. Pickett,. mercer, Madeley, Shropshi re -G. J. S. Tomkins, scrivenec, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire-S. Burke, coal-dealer, Ballast H. Bennett, timber merchant, Cheltenham--T. M.oseley, coach proprietor, Macclesfield-G. Williams, Irish ',revision, broker, Union-court, Broad-street, City-J. Deane, vender of druggists' sundrie s , Syd ney - square, C ommer cial-rowl---J. Clarke, stock-broker, Claremont-place, North Brixton, PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVV,D. P. and S. Garcia, fruiterers, Poultry-J. Strecker and E. Has hamconftioes, High Holborn-J. Work-P'.iouse and T. Lang , lace manufacturers, Nottingham-IL 'Hammond and T. Ste phens, gardeners, Taunton, Somer'Atshire-W. and J. Smith, millers, Claimes, Worcestershire-:r, Graham and 'l'. Calvert, en gravers, Kingston-upon -Hull-..C. llaigh and W Wood, wool staplers, Halifax-E. Tapp and E. Rivers, licensed victuallers, Great White Lion-sate;,, Seven Dials-L. Wilson and F. M. Welsh, schoolk et Z:ranford, Middlesex-M. Howitt and E. Everett, linen - gapers, High Holborn-W. J. D. Arnold and T. H. Johnson, coal-merchants, Milbank-street, West minster-C. A. Thomas and W. Alpe, grocers, Strat ton St. 'Mary. Norfolk-R. B. Hudson and W. Atkinson, linen drapers, Huddersfield-J. and W. Hamer, stonedealers, Walmsley, Lancashire -T. Martin and F. Green, woollen-drapers, Totter.lw.u -eouvt-road--F. Al'Lean and E. Green, tea-dealers, Liverpool Sanguine and J. Mi c h e ll, f ur manufacturers, Richmond.-Vildings, Soho-S. Hy ams an d S. E p h ra i m , j ew ellers, Liverp, o l--S . and S. H. Oughton, silk manufacturers, Manchester--J. Hall and Co, linendrapers, Daventry, Northamptonshire, far as regards J. Hall-4, Brook aiid Co., merchants Hudde - xsfield, so far as regards c t, H. Riley-I. Roebuck and Co. stuff merchants, Leeds-R. Worseley, S ta ff ordshire. Banks and B. Skidmore, engineers, PRICE OIL SUGAR. The average price of Muscovado Sugar, from the returns made in the week ending the 27th of March, 183il, is 335. 3d. per Cwt., exclusive of tlw Duties of Customs paid or p aya bl e on the Importa• Lion thereof into Great Britain. >P V Ai - ' V r i • .\ ''l / 4 1*( 7 r„